As you may remember, Workana is an oDesk for Latin America. An Argentine startup, it recently launched a Portuguese version for Brazil, and has the ambition to become the region’s leading marketplace for freelance work.

Overall, the jury was very impressed with the quality of the pitches it saw. The second place in the competition went to Papaya, a very interesting Peruvian startup we have previously mentioned in our post about Wayra’s impact in Peru.

In addition, we also selected four additional finalists among the startups present in TNW Conference’s exhibition hall – Bazr, Uppoints, Worldrat and Wormhole IT (see our article). The latter also took the first place in the Battle, despite the fact that these last-minute finalists had very little time to prepare their pitches.